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Elderly men learn to weave baskets and mats at a workshop initiated by JDC, Jerusalem.

Reference Code

NY_00090

Description

This basket and mat weaving workshop was initiated in 1920 in Jerusalem, British Mandate Palestine (now Israel), by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a humanitarian relief organization, to give employment to elderly men subsisting on financial assistance. The program provided training so that participants would have a means of supporting themselves.